Abbie Greaves, ANYWHERE FOR YOU: A Novel
Totally Booked with Zibby
Zibby Owens
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Abbie Greaves is still perplexed by the question posed on the cover of her latest book, Anywhere for You: "How far would you go for the love of your life?" Abbie and Zibby also discussed heartbreaking truths about missing persons, why they love stories with a large cast of characters, and all of the amazing things we often overlook during our daily commutes.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Libby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm also the host of Moms Don't Have Time to Lose Weight, and I'm the editor of the anthology, |
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| 0:16.8 | All proceeds of that book go to COVID-19 vaccine research. |
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| 0:34.8 | Okay, now back to this amazing podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | Abby Greaves is the author of Anywhere for You. She's also the author of The Silent Treatment. She studied English literature |
| 0:45.2 | at the University of Cambridge and worked in publishing for three years before leaving to focus on |
| 0:49.8 | writing. She currently lives in the UK. Welcome, Abby. Thanks so much for coming on moms don't have time to read books to discuss anywhere for you. |
| 0:59.0 | Thank you for having me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I was just admiring with the cover of your book, |
| 1:05.2 | my book rather, because I'm mid-move. So I have no books behind me. But no, I was just admiring it there. |
| 1:12.9 | Thank you so much about having you. |
| 1:14.4 | I'll just keep holding it up so you can see it. |
| 1:16.5 | Yes, it's a beautiful blue cover with stars and this little sort of train station with the subtitle. |
| 1:23.8 | How far would you go for the love of your life? |
| 1:26.1 | Aw. |
| 1:27.0 | So, Abby, why don't you tell listeners what Anywhere for you is about? And also I want to know why the different title for the UK edition and like what, what's, how did you pick which one for which area and all that? Yeah, brilliant questions. So first of all, I'll tell you a little bit about anywhere for you. So it's the story of a woman |
| 1:45.3 | called Mary O'Connor, and she's 40 years old. She lives in Ealing, which is in London, she works in a supermarket. But what's unusual about her is that every day when she finishes her shift, she walks to the tube or subway station, and there she stands with a sign that says come home jim and no one knows who he is |
| 2:01.6 | no one knows where he's gone that is until the beginning of the book seven years on from when |
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